Exhibition “Heterotopias as Other” by artist Lien Truong
Opening: Wed 05 Aug 2015, 6 pm
Artist talk: Wed 05 Aug 2015, 4 pm
Exhibition: 05 – 16 Aug 2015
Nha San Collective
From Nha San Collective:
Nha San Collective is pleased to present exhibition “Heterotopias as Other” by artist Lien Truong.
Embracing Michel Foucault’s concept of Heterotopias as sites that mirror, distort and invert other spaces, Lien Truong’s work implicates the labyrinth of our collective history. Through the lens of abstraction, painted gestures adorned with textile designs suggest national identities. The nonverbal aesthetics of textiles transcends language barriers, and potential of cloths’ capacity to be culturally absorbed. This trade once cultivated Western supremacy, assigning the East with exotic mystery, and supplanting it significantly as “the Other”. In Truong’s paintings’, mimetic movements become phantoms to the chords of colonialism. Gestures envelop, penetrate, and permeate among echoes of water and fluids. The painted forms coalesce into convoluted space, ultimately creating heterotopias bound by visual lyricism.
Lien Truong had had an exhibition titled “The Orient, The Occident” in HCMC in April 2014.
Communication partner: Hanoi Grapevine
Nhà Sàn COLLECTIVE is not a museum, a gallery or an international culture institute where completed work are presented by established artists. Just like Nhà Sàn Studio before, it is a working studio to nurture where artists can create, collaborate, be given advices, critiques, and have chances to meet with international artists, curators. Works that are presented at open studio every month could be finished or not, but the process of developing idea and working to improve the quality of the art work for local artists is what Nhà Sàn COLLECTIVE focuses on.
If you are interested and curious about experimental art, and want to have conversation with the working artists, please visit
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